ImageWorks is pleased to announce the launch of VisualDoD.com, a client site offering compelling software solutions for defense contractors of all sizes. 

In today’s fast-paced market, it’s critical for every defense firm to stay on the cutting edge by making advance predictions, carefully targeting appropriate markets, and analyzing data to improve decision-making.  VisualDoD allows users to do just that.

Our client, The Condo Hub, has recently launched a site all about buying, selling, and investing in condominiums in Northern Virginia, Arlington, Washington DC, and select spots in Maryland.

The site offers awesome functionality, like the ability to search for current condo listings, list your condo in their database, as well as offers many different calculators and reports to scope out the market and find out what your condo is worth.

The site also contains many resource articles and tips for buyers and sellers interested in the process of buying and selling condominiums.

"SEO is Dead." This has been stated over and over again since the search engines started. Every year there is a claim that SEO is dead - that some Google algorithm change has killed it and that there is something new that is going to take it's place....

But if there are search engines then there will always be search engine optimization. There are no signs of search engine optimization slowing down, and in fact it seems to be bigger now more than ever and is a critical part to your online success

Sure, we all love referrals – and why not? Warm leads, bundled up tightly with the endorsements of trusted sources, have the highest chance of conversion. Referrals are also a sign that you’re doing something right; after all, someone took the time and effort to refer a customer to you, which means that somebody was genuinely impressed with you and your work. But let’s face it: Word of mouth, referral, organic growth … these channels all hit a brick wall eventually.

This is a guest post from Ann Smarty - Internet entrepreneur and founder of Myblogguest.com

Of all of the question and answer sites that have been launched (some more successful than others), Quora is truly unique. It has managed to put together a valid community, filled with many experts who genuinely know the topics they are discussing.

Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) that allows you to easily add content, make changes to design, and add top level functionalities to your site without limiting customizable solutions to increasing business needs. It allows you to do so all the while using scalable tactics, providing a platform for collaboration, easy and user friendly editing, and limiting the need for any technical skills (programming). Whether you run an eCommerce site, a B2B business, or simply a blog Drupal can help you perform day to day activities and provide professional website design solutions for any and all of your online needs.

The Internet these days has become more and more about getting to the point. When people search for "pizza delivery" on their mobile devices, they want Google to figure out what they want for them. People don't want to have to figure out what pizza choice might be best by sifting through a bunch of content and pricing points and making a calculated decision. They expect search engines to do that for them these days - and that is exactly what Google aims to do.

This is kind of cool actually….

Those of you marketing with us know that we streamline your content to all social and even digital channels in some of our online marketing packages. Well one of these technologies is called Google Feeburner. Google purchased Feedburner in 2007…a technology ImageWork’s has used for years before the acquisition.

Syndicating your brand and message around the web is a large chunk of Internet marketing and search engine optimization (SEO). The need to get included in a large number of citation sites has become more and more important in the recent years for a number of different reasons - all of which can be very beneficial to your website both for locally based terms and for organic search reasons (some citation sites offer legititmate link juice value).

In the Internet world, there are a lot of things that can turn a user off. People these days are expecting more and more quality, and website speed is one of the biggest issues when it comes to whether or not someone is going to stick around for a while on your web site (as well as one of the many factors of search engine optimization (SEO)). When designing a website there are an infinite amount of things you can to get your visitors to get engaged. There are also many things you can do to get them to click the "back button" almost instantly.